It’s been 10 months since I wrote my last film review and to be honest, I wondered if I’d ever get back to writing about films again. The number of films I’ve watched has only increased over time but my desire to write about them seems to have faded. There was something, though, about Allied, which was so powerful that I immediately felt the urge to take my laptop out and start typing. I’m writing this sitting on a plane from Beijing to London and for the first time in a while I’m truly feeling motivated to write a review.

Flicking through Air China’s selection of films on board my flight I was truly disappointed by the range of films on offer. There wasn’t a single one that I particularly wanted to watch. After I finished the book I brought with me, I knew I was going to have to watch at least one of these films to save myself from boredom so I opted for Allied. I’m a big fan of both Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard so I figured this would be, at least, passable. In the end, however, this film ended up touching my heart in a way that I didn’t expect at all.

NB: I have not read the book therefore I cannot judge this film as an adaptation.

Brad Pitt’s latest film is a film adaption of Max Brook’s famous geopolitical zombie novel, World War Z. The film is about what happens after a huge number of people all over the world are suddenly infected by the zombie disease. Brad Pitt is recruited to help fight these creatures back and discover where they came from and how to get rid of them. He travels all over the globe to try and find his answers and faces several setbacks and with the zombie infestation spreading quickly and getting worse day by day, the future of planet Earth looks pretty bleak.

World War Z brings the zombie craze back to life (excuse the pun). I am not a fan of zombie films to be honest but I really enjoyed World War Z because the zombies were actually scary and not lollopping lumps of flesh. The bite from one of these zombies takes effect within ten minutes and will have the victim writhing and twisting on the ground until that happens. There’s something different about these zombies; they are actual monsters that have some sort of intelligence which makes them all the scarier. I thought that the CGI effects to create the zombies were fairly good as they created fairly realistic and detailed creatures. What let this down though was the fact that there was too much blurry action during the zombie action to really appreciate this.VIEW STORY »